Q. What is PolicyMap?

PolicyMap is a multi-disciplinary interactive online mapping and data tool that provides access to over 15,000 indicators:

• Housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, demographics and education.
• Data available for:
  • address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city state
  • school districts and political boundaries
•  Data can be presented as maps, tables, charts, and reports. 
• Use the data for market analysis, business planning, site analysis, demographic profiles, policy briefs, and grant applications. (credit: USC Libraries.

Access PolicyMap from the Databases A-Z link on the Library homepage. 

• This allows you to use all the professional features to which the Library subscribes.
• Create you own professional account to save work and access all of the professional feature

Example:  Estimated Foreign Born Population by County for the State of Tennessee (U.S. Census)

More Info / Source(s)

• PolicyMap Quick Start Video
• PolicyMap Data Listing
• PolicyMap Quick Start Guide (pdf)
• PolicyMap Primer (pdf)
  • click on the link to the latest version
• PolicyMap Tutorial
• PolicyMap Library Guide (Yale University)
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